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John Edwards appears three days before the caucus, like a Magician in a Casino showroom. I’ve been talking to everyone I see about getting past the media blockade down here and giving credit were it’s due to the real leader of the Democratic Presidential Nominees. Edward’s campaign has been the driving force [...]

Here’s a salute to the Democrats who are already planning to give up on Iraq withdrawal, according to the Washington Post.
From The Ballad of Brave Sir Robin (“Monty Python and the Holy Grail”)
Brave Sir Robin ran away.
Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir [...]

The Bush administration is ranked by historians as the worst ever in U.S. history, and they still have 423 days left in office. What to do? Try to rewrite history, of course.
In a cozy Air Force One interview with sycophant/columnist Kathleen Parker, President Bush made some interesting counter-factual claims:

“[W]e’ve got to support these [...]

With opposition to the Iraq occupation at an all-time high, today Washington politicians offered us more kabuki theater.
A $50 billion Iraq funding bill received a 53-45 vote in the Senate today. Normally that would mean it passed, like Judge Mukasey’s confirmation last week that passed 53-40. But no, it didn’t pass because the [...]

The current issue of The Nation is worth picking up, unless you’re a subscriber and you already know about it. They have excellent profiles of each of the Democratic presidential candidates. Now is the time to reflect on who we really want, because soon we’ll be left with just the front-runners, the “electable” [...]

I am pro-Union.  As a professional with a master’s degree, chances are good I am unlikely to work in a unionized job, but that does not change my basic support for Unions.
Unions serve all workers, not just their members.  Corporations hold an unfair advantage over individual workers for a simple reason - there are more [...]

What is President Bush’s Iraq strategy? Not military strategy, he hasn’t got one unless you count “stay the course.” I mean the political and media strategy, something the White House and GOP are actually very good at. The Petraeus-Crocker hearings were just a start. As Arianna Huffington wrote today, “[Y]ou have [...]

If you’ve been following the saga, you know by now that Congressional leaders - including Barney Frank - realized that ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act) would not pass if it included protections for transgender persons, so the trans protections were dropped.
This has led to some serious brouhahas (I don’t like the way that sentence reads but [...]

Today Congressman David Obey (D-WI) may have scotched the Democratic Party’s carefully constructed innocent bystander fable, the narrative that says Democrats can’t be held responsible, cannot stop funding the Iraq occupation and only have the power to sign blank checks for the Bush administration.
According to Talking Points Memo Obey, the chairman of the House Appropriations [...]

Back in November, I wrote:
Repeat this endlessly: Everything bad in America is the fault of Republicans and conservatives.
Be prepared for brutal, unfair, unfounded, vicious attacks from conservatives - it’s all they’ve got . . . Don’t get psyched out – the R’s play a brutal, no holds bar, no prisoners taken game. They’re wounded . [...]

Tonight on MSBNC, Pat Buchanan described the Democrats in Congress as “a whipped majority.” According to the New York Times, in a pe-emptive “compromise” “senior Democrats now say they are willing to rethink their push to establish a withdrawal deadline” for ending the occupation of Iraq.
From Greg Sargent on Talking Points Memo:
Of course, [...]